Civil society across countries
Readings and class materials for Thursday, October 17, 2024
Readings
Sarah Sunn Bush, “Democracy and NGOs,” in Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations, ed. Thomas Davies (London: Routledge, 2019).
Andrew Heiss, “NGOs and Authoritarianism,” in Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations, ed. Thomas Davies (London: Routledge, 2019), 557–72, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268927-39.
Nuno S. Themudo, “Reassessing the Impact of Civil Society: Nonprofit Sector, Press Freedom, and Corruption,” Governance 26, no. 1 (January 2013): 63–89, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2012.01602.x.
Albert van Zyl, “How Civil Society Organizations Close the Gap Between Transparency and Accountability,” Governance 27, no. 2 (April 2014): 347–56, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12073.
Article discussion reminder
How to discuss an article in a seminar
- Who wrote the article? What’s their background?
- General summary of the article
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- How does it connect to other readings?
- How does it connect to the broader course themes?
- How does it connect to current events?
- What does it add to our Global Bureaucracy Toolkit™?
Plan for the day
Civil society across countries
- Bush, “Democracy and NGOs.”
- Heiss, “NGOs and Authoritarianism.” (slides)
- Themudo, “Reassessing the Impact of Civil Society.”
- van Zyl, “How Civil Society Organizations Close the Gap Between Transparency and Accountability.”
Theory in real life essay